The Bridge

Hosch250

1:00 AM

So, if Answers was doing the best, I would vote Answers.

user15026

@Runer112 I never said botting was good, I am just saying this is not good either.

Rainbolt

I'll be honest, there were times that I felt we were a hive mind in the mid eras of beta and grad.

user15026

This thing has blown way past the "let's have a fun thing" into a weird mess.

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Runer112

I don't like it either, but I have to do it to try to combat bots

GiantCowFilms

I think my bot is quite dangerous

Rainbolt

1:00 AM

So I can't help you with coordination. But I can help with the strategy and actually I know how to beat it.

GiantCowFilms

its also a bit buggy

Yuuki

@Runer112 No, you don't have to do it.

user15026

@Runer112 You don't -have- to do anything.

GiantCowFilms

fighting bots with bots... not a good place

user15026

You're choosing to go against the spirit of the thing in hopes of....something.

user15026

1:01 AM

Winning, I guess.

user20683

dominion

Yuuki

@AshleyNunn This is why I've switched to homework. I'm actually having more fun with homework. More fun. With homework.

Rainbolt

Runer geez how many chat rooms are you wrecking?

Runer112

I'm choosing to go with the spirit, and getting there with lots of hard work

user15026

@Yuuki Is this the Markov chain type related thing?

Rainbolt

1:01 AM

Anime? Here? Anywhere else?

Ktash

I always just disable and hide away new SE things. They usually go sideways in some way or another

Matt Giltaji

if you want to share your strategies, feel free to post it as a question and and answer on the main arqade site and earn some reps

Yuuki

@AshleyNunn Yes.

user15026

@Runer112 I would hazard a guess that a lot of people would disagree with this.

Yuuki

I just fixed a bug with my output.

user15026

1:01 AM

@Yuuki Ah. :)

user15026

@Yuuki huzzah!

Rapitor

@Ktash this one has gone the most sideways

Rainbolt

I'll just post it in here I think. Feel free to steal it for reps. I'm not that motivated.

It's short anyway

Yuuki

Apparently, while I was concatenating text, I forgot to actually assign the newly concatenated string to the working string.

Kroltan

Hi there,
Just started playing Pillars of Eternity, and already feel like I'm horrible at it:
On Anslög's Compass, I was tasked with killing the sporelings in the cave. However, I have failed for the tenth time. What level is suggested for killing those mobs? I have a monk and a mage, both level 3, and the longest I survived was to kill one of the three sporelings.
I tried confusing the spores and attacking them individually, but when the duration expires, my monk gets almost literally torn apart.

Matt Giltaji

1:02 AM

@Kroltan hi, have you tried posting this on the main arqade site?

user15026

@Kroltan I don't know much about the game, but I feel like this might actually make a really good main site question :)

Kroltan

"It's kind of a broad question to post on the site, so I thought to ask here."

Rapitor

@Kroltan i don't think a question like that is too broad

user20683

that's pretty narrow

Matt Giltaji

its not broad at all

GiantCowFilms

1:03 AM

Guys the bot does work....

user20683

it's "how do I get past this one encounter?"

Kroltan

oh well, i'll go and post it then. thanks!

user15026

@Kroltan Nah, I think it will work :)

GiantCowFilms

except if it acctually goes to the restart page... even though it shouldn't

user15026

@Kroltan Yay! Hope you get an awesome answer.

GiantCowFilms

1:03 AM

however if enough of us bot, it should never go that far

Hosch250

@GiantCowFilms 2 votes to restart, mine only to save.

Runer112

I really hope you guys don't have less of a problem with bots than people trying to use two accounts

Kroltan

Sorry for disrupting your conversation!

Matt Giltaji

@Kroltan no worries :D

Unionhawk

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Runer112

1:04 AM

it would be kind of a sad state when you'd rather bots enjoy your site than people

user15026

@Kroltan no worries! That's what we're here for :)

user15026

@Runer112 I'd personally rather neither.

murgatroid99

@Runer112 I'm sure that's a false dichotomy

user20683

@Runer112 We'd rather both went straight to hell

Rapitor

@Unionhawk this is all your fault. you know that right

GiantCowFilms

1:05 AM

@Hosch250 huh?

Runer112

if bots stop, I'll be happy to stop

Hosch250

It voted to restart it :(

user15026

@Runer112 This is not even remotely true. I don't even know how you got there.

GiantCowFilms

when

@Hosch250 after it went into the confirm stage?

Hosch250

On the restart confirmation.

GiantCowFilms

1:05 AM

there is a bug there

Hosch250

Yes, it goes there every other time, or more.

I'm going to flag the internet.

GiantCowFilms

I'm working on it, but the idea is to skip that alltogther

Hosch250

I should be doing more school...

murgatroid99

@Runer112 Let me put it this way: griefing other sites' games isn't OK. Otherwise, it doesn't really matter how they play the game

Rainbolt

PRIVATE BETA: Alternate questions and answers. Simple.
PUBLIC BETA: Alternate questions and answers until one is maxed. Then add in Quality. Then add in Users.
GRADUATED: Alternate questions and answers until one is maxed. Then add in Quality. Then add in Users.
ALL STAGES: Ignore warnings exactly 4 times. Then address them.

That's really it I think.

murgatroid99

1:06 AM

@Rainbolt why quality after maxed questions for graduated?

GiantCowFilms

Also @Hosch250 If you vote before the bot, it won't overide

Hosch250

@GiantCowFilms I can't.

Rainbolt

We found out that you can get users for free sometimes. The star will literally go up on it's own.

So we do it last.

murgatroid99

@Rainbolt I think that's only when traffic is high

Hosch250

I'm trying to do school...

Rainbolt

1:07 AM

Well, traffic is born from answers + quality. All the more reason to skip users.

Trent Hawkins

The 20 second timer on the egg thing is juuust long enough to erode my attention span, and short enough that I don't feel like I can concentrate on other things and vote appropriately to help progress the thing. To the point that after a few votes I just stop caring.

Rainbolt

(It says so in the tooltip I think)

murgatroid99

@Rainbolt so, why not concentrate on those two first?

GiantCowFilms

This is nearly impossible to debug....

Rainbolt

Because Answers needs Questions. Low questions makes answers degrade faster.

It says that in the tooltip too

Schism

1:08 AM

aha! I've figured out that you can "bank" a heart by incrementing something at 4

but you can't bank more than one

Rainbolt

Nothing seems to negatively affect questions except closing. So we don't ever do it.

murgatroid99

@Rainbolt Do they degrade so much faster that it's worth taking longer to get traffic?

Rainbolt

Not sure. I would love to know.

We had no idea that we could ignore warnings four times when we reached 235. So it's beatable.

murgatroid99

I'm nearly positive that you get a bump in traffic whenever you have maxed quality and answers for two consecutive turns, so I think you want to alternate between those, and bump the other two when their warnings go for too long

Then when traffic maxes out, you can work on questions

Rainbolt

Hmm. High traffic makes quality very difficult to maintain. The trade off might be good or it might be bad. But we've already tried it one way, so try it the other way.

Now you have high answers and low questions, which means it will be degrading fast, plus high quality and high traffic, which means it too will be degrading fast.

But, you have traffic, which is free.

So I think it comes out even maybe

Rapitor

1:12 AM

it'd be nice to actually play and test these theories.

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